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Just make this annoying thing go away.
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Just make this annoying thing go away.
Ok, this is being spread around, so I need to canonize it.
The official answer to anyone who tells you that they have a blog is (say it with me now):
Man, there are so many good reasons to say this. Let’s name a few to make sure we’re on the same page, ok?
Do you see the problem here? We have these stupid habits we fall back on every time we meet someone new in this space. Like “What do you do?” they’ve become the routines we use when we run out of stuff to say, but everyone uses the same ones, so all they do is bore people.
There are many other conversations we need to wipe out of tech-conference circles.
Which ones are you sick of?
Filed by Julien at 12:29 pm under random
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PS: None of the irony/circularity of this being written on a blog is lost on the author, thanks. :)
Nice way to sum up the vast majority of blogs – incredibly accurate. Ironically, you have just complained on your blog about people complaining on their blogs (not that it will stop me from coming back).
I was looking for more blogs to follow, not for the complaints, but for informative articles, critical reviews, etc. Unfortunately, most of the blogs I was initially referred to drove me away by the incessant complaining. Maybe this article will help get rid of some of that.
I think anyone with a blog is guilty of some of this, because a blog is a personal soapbox. The challenge is to get people to change their mindset in general to something more positive. Think about highlighting great experiences, rather than being cynical. Share something you know something about that might help others (My recent FTC posts have been about trying to get people to understand them, rather than be reactionary or only parrot what other people say.)
Think of your blog as your op-ed opportunity- if you could write something for the newspaper, what would it be? What would it say about you? How can you use this soapbox to help solve a problem, fix a problem, get others interested in a topic they may not have thought of…
As a highlight, this also makes your unique point of view more visible and makes your blog a heck of a lot more fun to read than a typical “Yeah, and life sucks and here’s why” post.
Chris Penn does a great job of this. Julien obviously does, as do a bunch of other blogs out there- the best posts are great conversation starters, here and in your real, person to person life.
When you are in a darker mood, you can go find people to complain with. When you are searching for positivity, you will find that too. I think these diverse bloggers are equally as important. It places a sort of new balance in the world.
I get discouraged by the ones who go around and comment viciously simply because they are trying to make the blogger appear ignorant on their topic, or just looking to bring others into a bad mood with them.
I don’t think I get why talking about your blog is a bad thing.
I wish people would bring up their online lives more often, but for most people I know, where they go and what they do online doesn’t come up.